Pilgrimage in the Age of Globalisation
This collection of studies explores sacred and secular pilgrimage in the age of globalisation. It shows how pilgrimage unifies physical and metaphysical mobility into a holistic project of self-realisation and inner transformation through motion.
Dimensions of Social Exclusion
This book revolves around the societal institutions that exclude, discriminate, and deprive groups based on identities such as caste or ethnicity. It examines social exclusion as a complex, multi-dimensional process across a wide spectrum of societies.
The Question of Integration
What does integration mean? Through ethnographic case studies, this book explores integration in Denmark, a welfare society facing rising nationalism. It shows that integration is not a neutral term, but an ideologically loaded concept for redefining community.
We Are Playing Football
This pioneering study of grassroots sport in Papua New Guinea explores how Panapompom villagers’ attempts to recreate global football entangle them in circuits of colonial power, challenging what it means to be “globalised.”
Ethnographic Discourse of the Other
This book explores the ‘Other’—the oppressed and marginalized sections of society. This interdisciplinary volume discusses and theorizes the pragmatic concepts and issues related to these groups in contemporary South Asia.
Anthropological Fieldwork
The contributors to this volume argue that participant observation is an embodied process mediated by emotions. For fieldwork to attain its fullest potential, emotional reflexivity is essential. They propose new ways of practising it to enhance anthropological knowledge.
Cocoon Communities
This innovative volume proposes the concept of Cocoon Communities: groups that are highly significant for members, yet voluntary and not binding. It offers interdisciplinary perspectives on communities of students, online mourners, expatriates, and more.
Reveries of Home
Reveries of Home considers understandings of home in a globalized world. A series of case-studies reveals how home-making is an ongoing work, cementing the close connections that remain between home and identity, even in a world of movement.
In Sub-Saharan Africa, millions of children are AIDS orphans, street children vulnerable to exploitation, or child soldiers. This book identifies the critical problems they face, using an ethnographic approach to understand the plight of children in the world’s poorest region.
Shifting Positionalities
Shifting Positionalities examines the surveillance of sexual, racial, and ethnic identities in the post-9/11 era. It reveals how individuals and communities utilize techniques of actively resisting the policing of their daily lives across borders.
Running with the Fairies
In the first scholarly account of the Fairy Faith in over a hundred years, a PhD anthropologist interviews educated people in Ireland who have had direct spiritual experiences with fairies, recognizing the reality of nature spirit beings in a Western context.
Becoming the Other, Being Oneself
For millennia, the Wangazidja people have absorbed cultural influences from across the Indian Ocean. This book examines their strategies for negotiating this encounter, incorporating a variety of influences while remaining “authentic.”
How does Europe’s economic crisis affect industry on a grassroots level? This book explores the Italian jewellery town of Valenza and its industry’s downturn through the experiences of its inhabitants to understand the challenges Italy and Europe will face.
Animals and Science
What does a focus on animals bring to anthropological studies of science? This collection explores the intersections between animals and science, challenging our ideas of what it means to be human and suggesting that our Western knowledge is in need of rethinking.
All Graceful Instruments
This anthology gathers essays from a wide array of fields to reveal the Grateful Dead cultural phenomenon. Experts use criticism, sociology, and more to explore the music, the band’s success, and the Deadheads, making a case for their academic importance.
Identities, Cultures, Spaces
Globalisation has led to cultural encounters, which can be conflicts or opportunities for dialogue. This volume adopts a multidisciplinary approach to address issues at the confluence of identity and culture, discussing the role of shared spaces in forging identity.
This volume contains selected papers on Man and Environment, exploring human origins and the variability of populations. It discusses evolution, adaptation, skeletal variations, the effects of lifestyle on genetic structure, growth, and ageing.
Dislocating Anthropology?
Dislocating Anthropology? explores how fieldwork in bounded places is no longer tenable. This collection of essays sheds light on methodological dislocations relating to locality, identity, and fieldwork, examining relationships that are spatially dynamic.
ZONA NORTE
What began as an ethnographic study of sex workers on the U.S./Mexican border turned inward. The author studies himself within the culture, examining his feelings and reactions as he observes dancers and hookers on both sides of the border.
Kaleidoscopic Grammar
This book explores binarism—pairs of binary features—as a powerful tool in the evolution of civilization, cognition, and language. It argues that binarism provides a base for complexity, proposing that the first verbs evolved from a split in early nouns.